Universal #463

Legacy number: 463

 Number  462
 Original  If there is an opposition of active and passive voice, then the NP which has the semantic role of patient of the verbs “to create” and “to destroy” (see <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=461"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=462"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">) is considered the subject in the passive voice.
 Standardized  The patient of verbs of creating and destroying is the subject in the passive voice, if there is one.
 Keywords  diathesis, passive, transitivity, subject, direct object, agent, patient
 Domain  inflection, syntax, semantics
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  ?
 Source  Kozinsky 1995: 152

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Syntactic division of the active voice is the same as described in #462 (Kozinsky 1995). An intellectual breakthrough.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
An intellectual breakthrough.
Comment
EF · 20 Jul 2007
Syntactic division of the active voice is the same as described in <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=462"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0"> (Kozinsky 1995).